Window-sash fastener.



M. RODNEY.

WINDOW SASH FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1908' 91 6,956. Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

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WIND OW-SASH FASTENEB Application filed April 1, 1908.

[0 all whom it army concern:

Be it known that I, liLrriinw Rooney, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iowa Falls, in the county of Hardin and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful lVindow-Sash Fastener, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My objectis, first, to provide a neat, cheap, strong and durable window sash fastener specially adapted for adjustably and detachably fastening a. storm window to a window frame for protection from wind,dust, cold, rain and snow and also for interchangeably connecting a window screen to a window frame for purposes of ventilation and as required to exclude flies and other insects from a dwelling: second, to avoid the use of hinges for adjustably and detachably ianging storm windows and window screen sash.

My invention consists in a fastener made complete from a single piece of wire as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 shows a section of a window frame to which a section of a storm window frame is fastened and locked by means of one of my fasteners. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the left hand fastener shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view corresponding with Fig. 1 and shows the position in which the storm window may be held open by means of my adjustable fastener. Fig.v 4. shows a fiat side and Fig. 5 an edge view of the mating right side fastener for retaining a storm window or window screen adjustably and detachably connected with a window frame.

The letter Adesignates a window fame and B a fixed stop on the frame to which a window C is fastened and locked by the wire fastener D as shown in Fig. 3.

The fastener D is formed of a single length of wire by bending it double into two parallel lengths e and f and their connected ends bent at right angles thereto to produce a loop 9 adapted to be used as a finger hold for adjusting the device. The end of the part f is bent outward to produce a stop h and the end of the part c is coiled around said stop and then formed into a hook in.

To adjustably connect the fastener to a window frame a screw Z is passed between the two parallel parts 6 and f into the stop B so the fastener can slide up and down and also swing out laterally, as shown in Fig. 3,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. March 80, 1909.

Serial No. 125,287.

as required to hold a storm window or window screen in an open position.

The part c has a bight m that allows the head of the screw Z to pass from between the parallel parts 6 and f as required for detaching the fastener whenever desired and the storm window or window frame has a fixed screw-eye 12 into which the hook In on the end of the fastener inserted as required to hold a window or screen in an open position as shown in Fig. 3. To look a storm window or screen in a closed position a pin or stud 0 is fixed in the stop B and the fastener pushed up and guided and retained perpendicular by sait stud as shown in Fig. 1.

To unlock a storm window or window screen secured, by means of the fastener raise thewindow or sash and screen until he bight m is even with the fixed screw Z and then disengage the fastener from said screw and then you can open the window or screen and when both the right and left hand fasteners are thus unlocked from a window frame or window screen used, may be lifted off and stored away for future use as required during different seasons of a year.

Having thus set forth the purpose of my invention and its construction and manner of use the practical operation and utility thereof is obvious.

l Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent therefor, is:

1. An adjustable fastener for storm windows, and the like, composed of a single length of wire doubled at its central portion and a loop extended at right-angles from its upper end and its lower ends connected and provided with a hook extended downward.

2. An adjustable and detachable window sash fastener made of a single piece of wire doubled at its central part into parallel lengths and provided with a big-ht in one of its parallel. parts of sufficient dimensions to permit the passage of a screw head, a hook at its lower end and a loop projecting outward from its upper end, in combination with a window frame and a window sash, to operate as set forth.

MATHEW RODNEY.

Witnesses M. B. Downs, S. E. STAHL. 

